WATTLE (3)

Wat″tle (?), n. 1. 1. Material consisting of wattled twigs, withes, etc., used for walls, fences, and the like. “The pailsade of wattle.” Frances Macnab.
2. 2. (Bot.) In Australasia, any tree of the genus Acacia; — so called from the wattles, or hurdles, which the early settlers made of the long, pliable branches or of the split stems of the slender species.